On 15-16 January 2007, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has hosted in the Internationales Kongresszentrum Bonn a national kick-off event of the 7th framework programme. On the first day of the conference high-ranking international speakers incl. German Minister for Education & Research, Mrs. Annette Schavan, and EU Commissioner for R&D, Mr. Janez Potocnik, have presented an overview of all the elements of the new research framework programme. The second day has given the participants the opportunity to take a more detailed look at a variety of topics of the framework programme via individual workshop. and Marie Kolmanová.
The European Community offers two more new actions which Marie Curie implemented for the first time on 2008. These are COFUND (Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes) and IRSES (International Research Staff Exchange Scheme). and Marie Kolmanová.